Quotes about Christianity

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to be with Christ.

Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.